Spotlight

July 28, 2015
This page provides presentation materials from select workshops from the Alliance's 2015 National Conference on Ending Homelessness, which took place in Washington, DC, from July 15 to 17, 2015.

July 8, 2015
This resource examines the Department of Housing and Urban Development's short-term impacts report on its Family Options Study. It looks at what the report's findings say for the effectiveness of family homelessness interventions, including long-term subsidies, rapid re-housing, and transitional housing.

May 15, 2015
This resource explains the negative impacts that the Homeless Children and Youth Act (S.256) would have, and offers alternative approaches to address the problems the bill aims to address. The Alliance opposes the bill, which was introduced by Senator Dianne Feinstein, because it will not solve the housing problems of families and youth, and it would make significant changes to the homeless assistance system that would be unnecessary, burdensome, and harmful.

April 24, 2015
Is homelessness in the U.S. increasing or decreasing? There appear to be conflicting answers to that question. This is due to variations in the types of people counted, the data sources used, and methodologies used to collect data. This resource explains trends in homelessness as well as the various data sources for and limitations on data collected on homelessness.